Security News

Mike Mimoso and Chris Brook discuss the news of the week including the return of the Mamba ransomware, APT trends, a mystery company's 250K bug bounty, and a high schooler's $10K bug bounty from Google.

Ukranian police arrested a suspect alleged to have distributed the NotPetya/ExPetr malware that ultimately infected 400 computers.

One of yesterday's Flash Player patches was a do-over after the researcher who privately reported the problem earlier this year discovered the original patch incompletely resolved the issue.

Juniper warned Thursday of a high-risk bug in the GD graphics library used in several versions of its Junos OS.

Google awarded a hefty $10,000 bounty to a high school student last week for uncovering a bug that could have let anyone access an internal Google website.

SAP released 19 patches on Tuesday, including a trio of vulnerabilities marked high severity in its business management software.

An unnamed firm is paying up to $250,000 for vulnerabilities related to its virtualization platform.

Mughthesec, a variant of the OperatorMac adware, has been turning hijacked Macs into revenue-generating machines for the authors.

Mozilla fixed three critical vulnerabilities and made Flash click-to-activate by default when it released Firefox 55 on Tuesday

Researchers at Kaspersky Lab have seen a resurgence of Mamba ransomware pop up recently in Brazil and Saudi Arabia.